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' (N8 Mod el.) E. PEGKI L JVI.

' GAR WHEEL. No. 376,721. Patented Jan. 17, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF IC EDGAR PEO KHAMf OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR To THE PEOKHAM CAR WHEEL COMPANY, OF N W YORK.

SCAR-WHEEL,

SPECIFICATION forining part of Iietters Patent No. 376,721, dated January 17,1888. I Application filed November 7, 1887. Serial No.254,485. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR PEOKHAM, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York,-have invented new and i 5 useful Improvements in Oar-Wheels, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,.is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to. the class of carwheels which are provided with a paper or non-metallic core, and the invention consists in improved means for locking the tire on the wheel-body, as hereinafter fully explained,and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of the outer side of the wheel. Fig; 2 is a transverse section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detached transverse sectional viewof the tire.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre: sponding parts.

A represents the hub of theiwheel, formed with the circumferential enlargement A, upon which the non-metallic'core O is seated,

D denotes the outer ring of the wheel-body, between which ring and the aforesaid enlargement A of the hub the core 0 is confined by the plates P P, secured to opposite sides of the aforesaid parts by bolts or rivets t 15, pass: ing through the side plates, P P,and through the ring D and part A of the hub. The plate P, I provide with an additional support by a collar, f, applied to the exterior of said plate adjacent to the hub of the wheel, and secured through said collar.

' rior of the said plate is placed a ring, R, which projects over the outer periphery of the plate in position by the bolts orrivets tt passing" Syracuse,

7 P and into the rabbet a, and is formed with a circumferential lateral flange, 6, entering into the groove b of the tire, thering B being se-' cured in its position by the bolts or rivets tt passing through it.

The described wheel is more particularly designed for engine-trucks, and the advantages 5 derived from the described constructio n and combination. of parts are the following: The side plate P, being secured to the hub and directly interlocked with the tire, forms a substantial tie for holding the tire on the wheelbody. The ring B being removable from the wheel-body, and the side plate P at the same side of the wheel terminating at the inner periphery of the tire, allows the tire to be applied to. and removed from the wheel-body by re-' moving said ring and'slipping the tire on or off from the wheel-body at. the'aforesaidlside thereof. The portion of the tire which is interlocked with the flange of the ring R is braced ner periphery of the tire. 1 'What I claim as new, and desire to secure. by Letters Patent, is- 1 In combination with the wheel-body and the tire formedwv'ith the circumferential rabbets. a a and inward groove b b in said rabbets, the side plate P, projecting over the periphery of the wheel-body and formed with a flange, c, entering one of the grooves b, the side plate P, abutting against theinner'periphery of the tire, the ring R, applied to the exterior of the plate P and projecting over the outer periphery thereof, and formed with the flange (Len tering into the adjacent groove 11 of the tire,

and bolts or rivets t t, tying the ring R and the- I plate P on opposite sides of the wheel-body, as set forth. I 7 v In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, I

in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 15th day of October,

EDGAR PEOKHAM. [L. s.] I Witnesses: r v 1 HOWARD P. DENISON, 0. L. BENDIXON.

by the abutment of the plate Pagainst the in- 70 in the presence of two witnesscaat I 

